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A statue of Rangda, the queen of the Leyak.

• La-bar-tu (Assyrian) - Disease demon
• Labbu (Akkadian) - Sea snake
• Lady midday (Slavic) - Sunstroke spirit
• Ladon (Greek) - Dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides
• Laelaps (Greek) - Enchanted dog that always caught his prey
• Laestrygonians (Greek) - Anthropophagic giants
• Lakanica (Slavic) - Field spirit
• Lake monster (Worldwide) - Gigantic animals reputed to inhabit various lakes around the world
• Lakhey (Nepalese) - Demon with fangs
• La Llorona (Latin America) - Death spirit associated with drowning
• Lamassu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
• Lambton Worm (English) - Giant worm
• Lamia (Greek) - Child-devouring monster
• Lamiak (Basque) - Water spirit with bird feet
• La Mojana (Colombian) - Shapeshifting, female water spirit
• Lampades (Greek) - Underworld nymph
• Landvættir (Norse) - Nature spirits
• Lares (Roman) - House spirit
• La Sayona (Venezuela) - Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
• La Tunda (Colombian) - Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
• Laukų dvasios (Lithuanian) - Field spirit
• Lauma (Baltic) - Sky spirit
• Lavellan (Scottish) - Gigantic water rat
• Leanan sidhe (Celtic) - Fairy lover
• Leanashe (Irish) - Possessing spirit or vampire
• Leimakids (Greek) - Meadow nymph
• Leokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed lion
• Leontophone (Medieval Bestiary) - Tiny animal poisonous to lions
• Leprechaun (Irish) - Cobbler spirit
• Leszi (Slavic) - Tree spirit
• Leuce (Greek) - White poplar tree nymph
• Leucrota (Medieval Bestiary) - Hybrid of a lion and crocotta
• Leviathan (Jewish) - Sea monster, as seen in Job 41
• Leyak (Balinese) - Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
• Libyan Aegipanes (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-horse hybrid
• Libyan Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-goat hybrid
• Lidérc (Hungary) - Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
• Lightning Bird (Southern Africa) - Magical bird that can be found at sites of lightning strikes
• Likho (Slavic) - One-eyed hag or goblin
• Lilin (Jewish) - Night-demoness
• Lilitu (Assyrian) - Winged demon
• Limnades (Greek) - Lake nymph
• Lindworm (Germanic) - Dragon
• Ljósálfar (Norse) - Sunlight spirits; the Light Elves
• Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) - Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
• Lo-lol (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
• Lóng - Chinese dragon
• Longana (Italian) - Female human-goat hybrid and water spirit
• Long Ma (Chinese) - Dragon-horse hybrid
• Loogaroo (French America) - Shapeshifting, female vampire
• Lou Carcolh (French) - Snake-mollusk hybrid
• Loup-garou (French) - Werewolf
• Lubber fiend (English) - House spirit
• Luduan (Chinese) - Truth-detecting animal
• Luison (Guaraní) - Death spirit
• Lusca - Sea Monster
• Lutin (French) - Amusing goblin
• Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline guide spirit

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